Aquor water hydrant inside garage?

[PAndaemonium89]

I have a bathroom on other side of wall in my garage which would make it easy to run softened water to wash cars.

Anybody use these sleek hydrants? Is it overkill and should I just run a simple hot/cold hose bib. Trying to make it look like nothing is there…

 

[toolmiser]

Depending on your softner, doesn't soft water have a bunch of salt in it?

 

[MileHighRover]

Softened water isn't going to give you a spot free finish, if that's what you're going for. If not, why are you wanting to use softened water?

 

[logical]

I don't have much mineral in my well water and barely use a half dozen bags of salt per year...but I have used softened water to wash my cars for 17 years here.

 

[PAndaemonium89]

Softened water isn't going to give you a spot free finish, if that's what you're going for. If not, why are you wanting to use softened water?

It’s gonna be a whole lot better than hard water spots.

 

[PAndaemonium89]

Depending on your softner, doesn't soft water have a bunch of salt in it?

False. Actually none.

 

[logical]

I'll add that the softened water doesn't spot but if my truck happens to get hit by my lawn sprinklers , the untreated water leaves spots like crazy. And actually, some sodium does end up in the water but very little and it's not calcium chloride like road salt.

 

[larry4406]

Not a fan of the Aquor. I would use a regular frost free hose bib with extended barrel.

 

[toolmiser]

I stand to be corrected. It tastes bad though, but your car probably doesn't drink much of it.

 

[Jim greengo]

False. Actually none.

Here we go again. Hahaha

 

[racecougar]

I stand to be corrected. It tastes bad though, but your car probably doesn't drink much of it.

If it has a taste at all, something isn't right.

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

They look cleaner but I wouldn't want to mess with the special connector.
I also have hoses hanging by my hydrants which aren't stealthy.

 

[PAndaemonium89]

I stand to be corrected. It tastes bad though, but your car probably doesn't drink much of it.

There’s no taste to softened water

 

[larry4406]

The Aquor special connector is plastic and gets lost at the day job.

Then when you want to turn the hose off, you turn it out from the hydrant and then what? You drop it on the ground so you can use it tomorrow but now the grease on the o-ring has picked up grit and with use it starts to leak.

Oh, and the literature says you can’t use it for more than 12 hours.